Recognizes and encourages ongoing efforts to promote transparency and accountability among donors and recipient countries by means of a unified financial and sectoral information online tracking system; stresses the importance of a coordinated process of accessing lessons learned in the international response to a given humanitarian emergency; urges Governments of the affected countries to identify their unmet needs in terms of financial and technical assistance; emphasizes the need for the development of stronger institutions, mechanisms and capacities at the regional, national and local levels; calls upon States to fully implement the Hyogo Declaration and the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015; stresses the importance of and the need for regular updating of recovery assessment by the Governments of affected countries, the UN system and international and regional financial institutions; welcomes the establishment of Tsunami Warning Focal Points capable of receiving and disseminating tsunami advisories around the clock; encourages the Emergency Relief Coordinator to continue his efforts to strengthen the coordination of humanitarian assistance; urges Governments and the UN system, in planning for disaster preparedness and responding to natural disasters, and in implementing recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, to integrate a gender perspective and provide every opportunity for women to take a full, active and equal role in all phases of disaster management.

Adopted without vote, 74th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 62nd sess., Suppl. no. 49.